Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1916 — Page 3

“Old Andy”

By EVA VANE

(Copyright, IMB, by W. O. Chapman.) “It is the only way, John, dear, and you must not rebel. Only four months —why, it will pass before we know it!” i The man addressed bowed his head and was silent. Pride and manliness were sorely wounded. He had come squarely up against a situation neither had apprehended. Indecision, actual poverty shut them in completely. But Rhoda, brave, hopeful, industrious, suggested the way out.

They had been married in a quiet way only three months agone. Then John Bascom had what he considered a life Job with the furniture factory people, where he had been employed for two years. He had saved a little, but this had gone to furnish the humble iittle home they had rented. Then had come disaster. The factory had burned down one night. All work was suspended until it could be rebuilt. “You see, John, we must not give up,” Rhoda had said. “We owe nearly seventy dollars, that we counted on paying out of next month’s salary.” “And there is no next month’s salary!” submitted John desolately. “Unless I earn It!” cried Rhoda cheerily—“and that I can do. I will simply go back to Bellville and take my eld positron In the millinery store. You know I got good pay. There Is no such chance for me here in 'Haunton. In the meantime you must look after the house here.” "And have it said that I am living on my wife?” resented John —“never!” But Rhoda had finally prevailed. They must not break up, she insisted. And then John asked a pertinent question: "And what about Teddy?” For a moment Rhoda’s fair brow wrinkled with perplexity and concern.

“Why Do You Ask?”

Teddy was a waif, an orphan who had limped into Taunton Just after the wedding, ragged, hungry, with no past worth remembering, and no friends. The forlorn little tramp had come asking for food at the door. He had been welcome to it—and more. He was bright, accommodating, grateful. They had practically adopted him, had dressed him, had sent him to school, and his laughing ways had made him quite an Institution in the little home. “You must try and keep him with you, John. We should miss him dreadfully in the better days to come, if we sent him away now. There he is now,” and the gay ringing voice of their protege echoed outside, hailing some playmates. “Hey, was the circus good?” he was calling out. ! “Dandy!” came the prompt response. “Such a clown —and, say, the animals! There was an elephant as big as a house. And, say, the lion! My! but he was. fierce, and growled, and roared, and tore, as the keeper whipped him about the cage.” It was decided that Rhoda should leave three days later. The decision got about the town, and Ted heard of it at school. He came home crying, and Rhoda had to tell him the whole story. “If I could only work to help you,” sobbed the faithful Teddy. “Say, <jan’t I, mother? Say, I can help anyway. I can do with one meal a day. I’ve done it in the old days, many a time.” “Just be good and kind to John,” Mrs. Bascojn Bald. "He is greatly worried/' "You bet I will!” declared Ted. He was silent and thoughtful after that. The next evening, however, when he came home from school he was on nettles with some intense secret excitement. Rhoda attributed it jto her pending departure. If she had only known! For not a wink of sleep did Ted have that night. He would smile, as if in eager anticipation of some approaching event of interest and importance. Then, as he got drowßy, he would give a great start, come wide awake, and far a moment would winoe

with vivid terror until he had recovered his normal wits. The next morning Ted hurried away from home, bright and early. He made two visits. One was to the town livery stable keeper, the other to a wealthy magnate who had a mansion with great grounds, and a tame fawn and a pet fox. Ted propounded a peculiar question to both of these persons. It was: “What would you give for a real live lion?*

And they laughed at him, and wondered what quaint idea had got into the little fellow's head. That night, when the others were in the house fast asleep, Ted stole cautiously down the stairs, barefooted. He visited the pantry, and then, carefully opening the back door, scudded out into the dark, rainy night. Ha returned In about half an hour. The next morning Mrs. Bascom complained of a missing loaf of bread, and Ted nearly choked on what he was eating. His mother, by adoption, stared marveling at him as he left for school. “Mother,” he said, “you won’t go away until tomorrow, will you?” “No, dear,” answered Rhoda. “Why do you ask?”

“Maybe I can raise some money by then, and you can stay with us after all, for you see —” And then he clapped his hand to his mouth as if fearful of unloosening some secret, and darted away. “Why, I do believe the boy has got some wild idea in his head, the way he acts!” spoke John, and, half an hour later, walking down the main street of the town, he was surprised to find Ted, not at school, but turning into the main printing office of the village. He followed him, to come upon Ted in a businesslike way confronting the publisher of the local paper.

John drew to one side, in- the shadow of the big printing press, as he heard Ted say to the publisher: “Mr. Brown, do you ever give a fellow credit who wants to put a little notice in your paper?” “Why, yes, Ted, at times,” pleasantly answered Mr. Brown. “Going into business, and thinking of advertising in the Beacon?” “Oh, no, sir,” replied Ted soberly—“only I want to print a notice, and I’ve got no money, but I’m going to have a show, and that will bring in some, and then I want to sell something I’ve got, and I want you to write a little piece telling what it is.”

The proprietor was grinning, and the listening John was staring hard. “What are you driving at, Ted?” inquired the publisher; “what is it that you’ve got to sell?” “Well, I haven’t told a soul yet,” explained Ted, lowering his voice and gazing about in a mysterious way. “You see, the folks have a lot of troubles, and I want to help them, and I wanted to surprise the boys. It’s a lion.” “A —lion!” uttered the publisher in amazement. “Yes, sir—it’s funny. I was Just scared to death three nights ago, crossing the pasture lot with the old barn on it. There was a lion —yes, sir!” and Ted became desperately excited. “A real, big, live lion! I slammed the door shut on him and then looked in at the window. The lion didn’t roar, like the books say. He sort of whined. I’ve been feeding him since, and I’ve got right in with him. He’s tame as a cow. And I’m going to have a show and charge two cents.”

"Ted, what color Is your lion?” demanded Mr. Brown, seizing Ted’s arm, and the excited one now. “Yellow, with a white nose, and —” “I declare!” gasped the publisher. And Just then he caught sight of Mr. Bascom. “I say!” he hailed him —• “this fine lad of yours has made a lucky find. Look here!” % The publisher stepped to one side and lifted from a freshly printed pile a handbill Just ready for distribution. It offered three hundred dollars for the return to the show at Bellville of Old Andy, the escaped menagerie lion. “Crackety!” exploded loyal Ted, all grins and chuckles as it was made plain to him that he was rich —for a boy. “Take it all!” he cried, with tears of Joy, to John. “Oh, but I’m glad and happy! ''And mother —she won’t have to go away, after all!” “Bread on the waters!” solemnly observed the impressionable publisher. “The incident will make a fine editorial.”

On Being Natural.

The world has established certain standards of etiquette for those who would be recognized as well bred and, cultured. The earlier in life these standards are adopted the better for the woman. Fortunate indeed is she who has cultivated early in life a soft voice, poise, grace of carriage and the “pretty” way of doing things. She need have no fe&r that in a moment of excitement she will forget herself and be guilty of a faux pas. Absolutely destructive of naturalness in manner is self-consciousness. This affliction amounts at times almost to an obsession. It causes women to shout who wish to speak low; it leads often to an assumption of bravado, causing criticism that may be unjust, but is invited and unavoidable. - j If is a gentle art, the art of being natural; one that is essential to every woman, who wishes to be regarded as interesting, attractive and popular. No woman with an ounce of brains will allow herself to become the victim of affectation if slie Would get the most that is possible out of life.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

BEST DIET FOR CHILD

ADVICE OF SPECIALISTS OF BUREAU AT WASHINGTON. Preparations of Meat, Fish, Eggs, and Meat Substitutes Recommended — Almost Innumerable Variety of Btews le Possible. The following directions far the use of meat, fish, eggs, and meat substitutes in the diet of a child three to six years of age are taken from Farmers’ Bulletin No. 717, “Food for Young Children,” prepared by specialists of the office of home economics, United States department of agriculture. Broiling and roasting are the best methods of preparing tender meat. Tough meat should be stewed or prepared in a flreless cooker, ,or first chopped and then broiled. It is very important to teach the very young child to chew meat properly. Fried meats, particularly those which are pan fried or cooked in a small amount of fat, should not be given to young children. One reason for this is that they are likely to be overcooked and tough, at least on the outside, and so are likely not to be properly chewed and to be swallowed in large pieces. Another reason is that the fat used in frying and also that which tries out of the meat is likely to be scorched and changed in composition. When this is the case, it is almost certain to be harmful. Some recipes for cooking meat for children follow:

Many cuts of meat too tough to be broiled whole may be prepared very satisfactorily by being chopped, salted and broiled. Allow about one-half teaspoonful of salt to a pound of meat. For very little children the meat should be scraped instead of being chopped, for in this way the connective tissue is taken out. An egg or a little milk may also be added. The most important point is careful handling, for if the meat is pressed together it becomes tough and hard. If a wire broiler is used, the cakes should not be squeezed between the two sides. To avoid this, lay them on top of the hroiler and turn them with a knife and fork. Stews made out of meat and vegetables offer a very great variety -of dishes good in themselves and good

Ideal Dinner for Child-Lamb Chop, Baked Potato, Spinach (Cut Fine), Rice and Milk, Bread and Butter.

also because they encourage the eating of bread. The meat used should, of course, be in good condition but need not be from a tender cut. The lower-priced cuts may be used with good results, provided they are made tender by long, slow cooking. Any vegetable may be added, including the tougher parts of lettuce, and the leaves of celery. Rice, barley, macaroni, or even crusts of stale bread may be used in the stew to give variety. A stew containing a little meat, with one or more vegetables, and a cereal comes near to supplying all the needed foods, other than milk. Cut the meat into small pieces, cover With boiling water, boil for five minutes, and then cook at a lower temperature until the meat is tender. This will require about three hours on the stove or five hours in the fireless cooker. Add carrots, turnips, onions, pepper and salt during the last hour of cooking, and the potatoes 20 minutes before serving. Thicken with the flour diluted with cold water. If the dish is made in the flreless cooker, the mixture must be reheated when the vegetables are put in. There is much to be said in favor of keeping a soup pot on the stove all the time, provided great care is taken not to allow the contents to grow stale. Into this pot can go clean portions of uncooked food and also clean foods left from the table, such as meat, milk, mashed potatoes or other vegetables, crusts, cold cereal mushes, and even fruits. Soups made from such materials may not have great nutritive value, but, like those made out of materials bought for the purpose, they encourage the use of a large amount of bread, particularly if carefully seasoned. Chicken or turkey can be used for variety in children’s diets. It is palatable stewed and served with rice. If roast chicken is used, select portions which are tender. It is well not to give a young child either highly seasoned j stuffing {(pressing) or rich gravy. The use of cured fish, fresh fish and Oysters in stews has been spoken of above. Boiled or stewed fish is also good for variety. ,Eggs are especially useful food for young children. The chief point to remember in preparing them for children is that they must not be overcooked or they are likely to cause indigestion, as experience has shown. Everyone knows how the heat of cooking hardens the egg, and it is easy to understand why the digestive juices might have difficulty in penetrating such hard substance as the white of a hard-boiled egg. Overcooked yolks also thought to be hard to digest. However, when eggs are cooked in the

shell, the heat reaches the white be fore it does the yolk, and so there is more danger of the white being overcooked than of the yolk. The best ways of serving eggs for children are poached, soft-boiled, or coddled, though they may be scrambled for a change if one is careful not to scorch the fat used or to overcook the egg. One of the most satisfactory ways of cooking eggs is by coddling and is done as follows: Allow a cupful of water to each egg, bring the water to the boiling point, remove it from the fire, put in the eggs, eover the dish closely, and leave the eggs in the water for about seven minutes. Milk and eggs, as stated aboVe, are common meat substitutes. Among vegetable foods, dried beans, peas, lentils, and cowpeas, which are often classed together and called legumes, are the best substitutes for meat in the diet of older people, chiefly because they have large amounts of nitrogen needed for muscle building. In this respect they have some advantage, though not a great one, over cereals. Beans and the other legumes are not to be recommended for yomig children except when milk, meat, eggs, fish, and poultry are not to be obtained. When used they should be cooked until they are reduced to a mush. Since the skins are likely to be tough, it is well to put the cooked legumes through a sieve.

PERFECTION IN THE KITCHEN

One Secret of Successful Cooking la Having Proper Materials With Which to Work. Most housekeepers have wondered at times why there is “a touch” about the best hotel cooking that amateurs can seldom get. It is not because the materials are superior or the recipes exclusive; home cooking can be better than hotel cooking so far as that is concerned. It is partly due to the very simple factor of heat and cold. In the hotel kitchen everything is not that should be hot, and everything that should be cold is Just off the ice. The home kitchen may not be provided with huge refrigerators, warming tanks, and plate racks heated by steam, but that is no reason for not being up to date. Enamel double boilers, an enameled bain-inaris, even an enameled saucepan or frying-pan or baking dish set in the top of a kettle of boiling water, will keep any sort of dish hot without its being dried or scorched. And they are far easier to keep clean than the elaborate copper and nickel fittings of the hotel. The other thing in which the chef is apt to be superior is ia the use of complex flavors in soups and sauces, and here again his creations can be rivaled with enameled soup-kettles and double boilers. The oni| thing that even some good cooks need to learn is that the longer and slower the process of blending flavors the more perfect Is the blend.

“HODGE-PODGE” ECONOMICAL

Can Be Fashioned From Any Scraps the Larder Affords and Makes a Most Satisfactory Meal. Having to live as cheaply as possible on account of the war, we have invented a “hodge-podge.” It is made of any scraps the larder affords. Vegetable hodge-podge is one of the best, and gives the idea for all. Take a baking dish, put in a layer of flnely-cut-up bread (crusts of c6ld toast is all right), next a layer of cold boiled macaroni with tomato sauce (rice will do as well) then cold boiled cabbage, cauliflower or parsnips, or, in fact any cold vegetable, and a layer of cold potatoes; salt and pepper. Add a few spoonfuls of gravy, if on hand. Repeat layer until dish is full; grate dry cheese generously on top. If not quite moist, add a little water. Put brown bread crumbs on top and heat thoroughly in the oven. It is surprisingly good, and makes a most satisfactory meal. —Woman’s Home Companion.

Boiled Pork and Chill Sauce.

Prepare the chili sauce before cooking the meat and in a goodly quantity, as it will keep for a considerable time; or use chili sauce already prepared and bottled. The cultlets, taken from the leg of fresh pork, should be about half an inch in thickness. Place them between the bars of a double gridiron over a moderate fire, cook for about 20 minutes; when done place them on a hot dish, sprinkle over a little salt and pepper, put a little butter over them and serve with the chili sauce in a boat.

Buckwheat Cakes.

To one and a half pints of pure buckwheat flour add half cupful of white flour and cornmeal, three heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of brown sugar or molasses. Sift all the dry ingredients together and add a pint of milk or water, or sufficient to form a smooth batter that will pour easily (hot too thin) from a pitcher.

Oysters in Sauerkraut.

Place in a baking dish alternately layers of cooked sauerkraut and oysters, starting and finishing with the sauerkraut. On top place a few strips of fat bacon. Place in a hot oven for about half an hour, or until heated through, and serve at once.- ..

Changing Pillow Cases.

__ In putting on fresh pillow cases, start the pillow into the- case, then, holding it to you press against the wall, and the pillow wild slip in easily, filling the corners. '

Amid mexico's Rich mines

PARRAL, Mexico, which recently was the scene of tragic happenings in connection with the arrival there of General Pershing’s punitive expeditionary force, is in the heart of the fabulously rich gold and silver mines district of the southern republic, mines which were among the first discovered by the Spanish conquerors and which began pouring their streams of wealth into the coffers of the monarchs of Aragon and Castile as early as 1547. This town, which has a population of less than 20,000, has been the center of Francisco Villa’s operations for several years, says a bulletin issued by the National Geographic society. Situated on the banks of the semidry Parral river, at the foot of the Sierra de la Cruz, Parral’s whole history centers below ground, in the marvelously rich Veta Colorado (red vein), which runs from north to south through the Parral mining district, including Minas Nuevas and Santa Barbara.

As early as 1600, before the first permanent English settlement in the United States, there were 7,000 miners employed in this district, bringing from the depths of the earth the yellow metal destined to sustain in splendor, for a time, the opulent court of the then most powerful monarch in Europe. From that day up to the present Parral has continued to enrich the world from its seemingly inexhaustible store of silver and gold, the only interruption having been caused by a rebellion of the oppressed natives, who on one occasion flooded all the mines of tho district and then deserted the city by the thousands. The richness of the or© in this section is shown by the fact that American mining companies find it profitable today to smelt the tailings or refuse of the old Spanish works. Indian Kept His Secret.

One of the most interesting incidents in the early history of Parral centers about a time-st£fined church known as La Iglesia de la Virgen del Rayo, the favorite place of worship among the Indians of the district. In 1690 a devout native began the construction of the church, paying his helpers with ingots of pure gold, which he produced mysteriously once a week. During the twenty years required to build the structure the pious Indian baffled the spies commissioned to discover the source of his treasure, but when his work was finished the Spanish commander summoned the miner before him and demanded that the location of the mine be disclosed. When the Indian refused to, tell he was tortured to death, carrying with him to the grave the secret which 200 years of search have failed to reveal.

One of the "sights” of Parral Is the palace of a multimillionaire mine owner, once a humble peon. In this house, which is shut in by adobe huts and narrow streets, there are big drawing rooms and museums with luxurious carpets, over which the owner’s fighting cocks are allowed to roam at will, it is said. Twenty pianos are among the most highly prized possessions of this simple, public-spirited native, the source of whose wealth is La Pamilla (little palm) silver mine, which he discovered many years ago. Parral was not always the chief city of this mining district. In 1580 the nearby town of Santa Barbara was the seat .of government for a vast region equal to one-third the area of the United States today, exclusive of Alaska. The country over which it held sway embraced the territory now comprising Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Colorado.

Durango Also Rich in Mines. Parral lies only a little north of the borders of the state of Durango, which is surpassed'in the number of its mining properties, aggregating more than 4,000, by only two states in Mexico — Chihuahua and Sonora. Its natural resources include silver, gold, lead, tin, copper, sulphur and rubies. The state’s wealth is not confined to minerals, however, for there are extensive forests of valualjleitimber and the agricultural resources are capable of almost unlimited development, while lr 000,000 head of stock find rich pasturage on its fertile tableland. The Nazas river, which empties into Lake Habas, is the principal waterway of the state. It is known as the Nile of Durango. In the spring, as the snow melts, the river Inundates JJts valley, leaving a rich deposit of silt brought down from the mountains. After the waters have receded the land bursts into bloom like a miniature ■ Egypt, cotton, barley and wheat grow-

VIEW OF PARRAL

ing in great luxuriance, while the whole landscape assumes the aspect of a flower garden. One of the most Interesting trees to be found on the mountain slopes of Durango is a species of pine, the needles of which the Indians and Mexicans boil and use as a remedy for stomach troubles. Its taste is like that of anise seed. The wood of these trees is much used by the Indians in the manufacture of their primitive violins. One of the products indigenous to Durango, but one of which the state does not boast, is a venomous species of scorpion whose sting is almost invariably fatal in the warm regions of the state, but which is more painful than dangerous in the higher and cooler altitudes. In the vicinity of Durango City 60,000 of these spiders are killed annually, some of the natives making a business of destroying them, collecting from the municipality ft bounty of one centavo per scorpion. City Has Wonderful Climate. At an elevation of 6,000 feet, the city of Durango, capital of the state, enjoys a matchless climate, which has earned it the sobriquet, “town of sunshine.’* It is one of the oldest Spanish settlements in the republic, having been founded by Captain Ibarra two years before the followers of Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles initiated the permanent colonization of the United States at St Augustine. The site of the present city was reached by the adventurer and silver-seeker, Mercado, who in 1552 discovered the famous Iron mountain of the suburbs. When Ibarra arrived with his colonists the country was occupied by nomadic savage tribes.

One of the odd customs of the Durango district is the funeral ceremony for children. “An angel is being buried” is the explanation which a native will give of a gay procession headed by a woman bearing aloft on a board a bundle bound in white. The parent© of the child are obligated to give it joyfully to heaven, to the accompaniment of music and dancing. If there is weeping the baby cannot enter paradise until it has gathered all the tears. One of the places of historic interest is the town of Santiago de Fapasquia* ro, said to derive its name from “paa quiero," meaning "I want peace." The phrase alludes to the defeat of the Indians following a massacre of the missionaries and a burning of the churches by the Tepehuanes and Tarahumares in 1616. After the outrage the Indians gathered a force estimated at 25,000 and marched on Durango City. The governor of the province, with-600 valiant whites, determined to resist and save the territory for Spain. In the battle which followed, the Spanish chroniclers declare, the governor completely overcame the insurgents, who lost 16,000 men. After this overwhelming defeat the Indians wanted peace. Durango derives its name from the old Spanish town of that name, in the Basque provinces.

Woman and the Arts.

In the minor art of dancing, and In the nobler work of reproducing the music of the great composers, and in acting the characters of the great dramatists, there are women of high, and even of highest rank. But to leave these more interpretive or reproductive arts, only in fiction does she approach the mark of men. For here she must be counted with the great of the craft. And even should some crabbed soul insist that the rare company in which are George Eliot, Jane Austen, George Sand, Madame de Stael, and the queen of Navarre, does not include the one who Is greatest in the guild, yet there is no discomfort felt in naming these women along; with Scott and Dickens, Hugo, Cervantes, and Boccaccio. But speak of the other creative arts, and we feel at once the chill. Chaminade looks ill at ease in the presence of Beethoven i Joanna Baillie, with Shakespeare; Angelika Kauffmann, with Michelangelo, —George M. Stratton, in Atlantic.

He was trying to sell a dog, a bandylegged brute, with features calculated to stop a motor car, and the old lady did not seem averse to buying one. Their ideas as to the brute’s value scarcely corresponded, however, and there was little prospect of agreement, when suddenly the lady demanded: “Will he biter* 1“ “Only his meat, mum,” responded the fancier. ' “Oh, but I wanted one for tramps.” “Tramps is his meat, muni," was the artful reply, and there was a deal after all.

He Sold.